Saturday, December 29, 2007

NewsThe Star Phoenix writes yet another story about the "year of the cheat" and says that the Landis saga was almost the saddest tale of all.

The Summit Daily News gives Floyd Landis a "comeback of the year" honorable mention for his remarkable ride at The Leadville 100 in August.

The CyclingNews notes that it's been suggested athletes, including cyclists, be implanted with a special anti-doping control microchip that could be used for GPS tracking purposes thus eliminating confusion about anyone's whereabouts. Hey if you can do it for your dog...And in Part3 of the CyclingNews' "Year in Review" the nightmare of this year's Tour de France and the fallout afterwards is reexamined.

LancasterOnline.com writes of the year 2007 where gun violence, racism, and Floyd Landis were among the top local stories.The Pilot.com finds Gordon White writing of the year past in sports where cheating seemed to reigned king. Floyd Landis is mentioned, but so is 2007 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador.

BlogsYou Need to get Real devises hypothetical New Year's resolutions and has one for Floyd Landis stating,"I will continue to claim my innocence even though nobody cares.". But "Real" you're wrong, lots of people still care.

Erik Speaks has video from Forbes with Tom Danielson of Slipstream, talking about steroids and Landis. He thinks cycling is leading the cleansing of sport. On Landis, he doesn't think the case against him makes sense, but he moves away quickly. The interviewer wants to think Floyd got spiked somewhere, and ends asking what Danielson really thinks -- Tom doesn't think so.

Rocks Blog has something about Landis and power, but I can't make sense of it, nor find a machine translation that works.

1 comments:

Admittedly, I have a luddite tendency or two, but doesn't the implantation of micro chips into cyclists in order to support a whereabouts program seem just a bit over the top? Welcome to 1984, a tad late...

Total Poindexter Website Prize: to the fabulous geniuses over at trustbutverify, who not only are perhaps the most impassioned defenders of Floyd Landis' virtue beyond only the boy himself, but actually seem to understand the detailed scientific arguments they put out that the rest of us (well, me) are too stupid to even coherently summarize. Floyd, you better be innocent, or you owe these folks a *major* freakin' apology! (racejunkie)

"Who does awards for blogs? I sense a nomination is in order." (Carlton Reid, of BikeBiz)

"Hands-down champion of full-and I mean full-coverage of this hearing is the blog Trust But Verify. You'll have to have excellent background knowledge of the issues, and wade through page after page of detail to get to anything interesting, but it's raw and unfiltered and all there. The guy who runs the site, a cycling fan from Northern California, began casually providing a clearinghouse for Landis case news nearly 10 months ago, and now he has the haunted look of a man whose life has been hijacked and wants it back. (Loren Mooney, co-author of Positively False, at Bicycling)

"if you want the latest news on the Floyd Landis case, Trust but Verify is the go-to site. The author is biased in favor of Floyd (so am I) but the reporting is neutral and comprehensive." (12string musings)

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TBV is personally biased towards Floyd. I think it'll be a better world if he proves his innocence, and some inquisitors meet their own just ends. Interspersed between daily link roundups are pieces of commentary slanted towards understanding what will prove innocence in the discipline proceeding, and what will rehabilitate his reputation in the public eye. Make of them what you will. Agreement with me is not required, though I am right.